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advise the beginner to try the experiment : he would 

 act more prudently, in most cases, were he to put up 

 with an unsound purchase. I have seen the joke 

 retorted in no very courteous way, and the striker 

 has proved to be the loudest "roarer" of the two. — I 

 once saw a veteran dealer receive a kick that cured 

 him, at least for that day, of all practical experi- 

 ments upon "roaring" horses. There is another 

 means by which the symptoms of either a roarer or 

 a broken-winded horse may be made to develop 

 themselves in a more decided manner — allowing the 

 animal to drink to repletion : this immediately ag- 

 gravates every symptom to such an extent as to 

 leave little room for doubt as to the existence of the 

 disease : but it being impracticable to avail oneself 

 of this test in the dealer's stables, before the pur- 

 chase is made, I only mention it as a convenient 

 method of satisfying the judgment, if, after the 

 horse is brought home, his soundness appears so 

 equivocal as to make it expedient to enforce the war- 

 ranty. A purchaser who has the opportunity of 

 trotting the horse at a sharp pace, for three or four 

 miles, will observe a heaving of the flanks, when the 

 wind is affected even but slightly, for two or three 



